As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.
I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.